Zach Bivens

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Joined Oct ’11

12 articles written

Bio: I have been playing pokemon for almost 3 years now. Thanks to pokemon I have traveled to many different states that I may have never visited otherwise. Currently I have 53 Championship Points with a rating of 1896 putting me at #10 in NA Masters.
Aside from all things pokemon related I also enjoy Poker, Video Games, Basketball, and spending as much time as possible with family and friends.

A brief list of my accomplishments:
8× 1st Br, 3× 1st cities, 4th states ’12, top 16 Regionals’10, 3rd Regionals ’11, 8th regionals ’11, 4th regionals’12

Zapping the Don

A Case Study on Countering the Meta “Tackling this year’s City Championship metagame proved to be a particularly daunting task in comparison to previous years because I actually had to go back and read most of the cards from all sets released after Plasma Blast due to my absence from the game. For the first three tournaments I decided I would keep it simple to get a feel for the game once again. At Cities number one I played a Donphan deck for the first time, wrecking my way to the finals where I lost to Jake Dudzig in a mirror match. Donphan decks managed to claim…

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Purple Daze – Darkrai/Garbodor Deck Breakdown and Analysis

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You Don’t Say? – Interesting Decks from Worlds 2013

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I Wanna Be the Very Best – Plays of the Top Players from US Nats ’13

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The Road Not Taken – An Emerging Metagame

’13 Jun 18
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Its tentacles tear off easily, but it isn’t alarmed when that happens—it knows they’ll grow back. It’s about as smart as a three-year-old. (Clobbopus)